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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-18
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HOTELS.

DUB'S SCREVEN HOUSE.
TNHIS POPULAR Hotel is now provided with
4 Passenger Elevator (the only one in the
city, and has been remodeled and newly fur
nished. The proprietor, who by recent purchase
is also the owner of the establishments spares
neither pains nor expense in the entertainment
of his guests. The patronage of Florida visit
ors is earnestly invited. The table of tho
Screven House is supplied with every luxury
that the markets at home or abroad can afford.
THE MORRISON HOUSE.
One of the Largest Boarding Houses in the
South
A FFORDS pleasant South rooms, good board
"A with pure Artesian Water at prices to suit
those wishing table. regular or transient accom-
modationS. Northeast corner BroughUon and
Drayton streets, opposite Marshall House.
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urgent. Unless am much mistakes,
Days, Harrigan ., the Union-square,
Dockstader's, the Windsor, Fifth-avenue
Peoples, Third-avenue and Poole's will
be closed good part Of the summer.
Neil Burgess is to try "Vim," ct the
Bijou, IN the hope that II will hold fast six
or eight weeks, yet doubt II he will sue.
ceed but there are brighter prospects for
Richard Mansfield, who IL to occupy the
Madison-square in June with his new
play, drsmstized from "Dr. Jekyll and
Mr.. Hyde"
The Rialto begins to wear June as
pect thus early. That 10 because score
Of road companies have prematurely
closed their tours, on account of the re-.
strictions of the interstate commerce
law. II suppose" said a gloomy and
somewhat shabby Thespian to me at the
Morton House bar yesterday, 1.-THE trainers
of that law meant to do right; but by the
eternal they've raised the deuce with about
10000 hard-working and always poorly
paid actors. My manager closed eight
weeks earlier than he had intended, and
he didn't pay our last weeks wages, be-
cause when the railroad fares to New
York were settled at interstate rates there
wasn't cent left! The railroad
got everything, and we got left. Where's
the justice of that lawP"
couldn't tell him, and dare say you
can't. Of course the commissioners
must relieve the theatrical profession of
this burden. 1t will never be able to
carry 1t. FERAMORz.
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FEMALE LOBBYISTS.
wOMAN's CHARMS BROUGHT TO
BEAR UPON LEGISLATION.
The Fine Reception Rooms where Con-
gressmen See Their Lady visitors-Fe-
male Persistence and Tenacity in Follow
ing UP Members-Trials Of Legislators.

WASHINGTON, April 28-"Show me the
seats where the female lobbyists Sit" said
a stranger to me one day during the last
days of Congress this winter. looked
at him to see If he was in earnest, and
his face was as straight and as solemn as
that of a Judge on the bench.
"What do you mean" I asked.
"Why, is there not certain place for
female lobbyists to sit in the gallery and
regulate legislations" was his reply.
l laughed heartily at this remark, and
told him that of course there was not.
Persons who are known as female lob
byists would be insulted to be called
such, and more especially would not like
to be known to the world. Many people
in the country, however, think that fe-
male lobbyists have just such places in
the galleries as my friend imagined they
had, and think that they, like the popu-
lace at the Roman gladiatorial contests,
sit on the front row and turn their
thumbs up or down to encourage bills
pending.
There are great many women, and
ladies, too, by the way, who are continu-
ally around the Capitol during the ses-
sion. They either have some private
bill or claim and act in the capacity of a
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A COSTLY LUXURY.
An Estimate Of the Peoples Annual To.
bacc0 Bill.

An Estimate Of the Peoples Annual To.
bacco Bill.
Statistics are often presented showing the
enormous size of the nations liquor bill, but
few persons comparatively are aware how
much is spent on another luxury-tobacco.
The american Grocer has made careful es-
innate Of the nations tobacco bill for 1885,
and places 1t at $256, ,5O0, ,OOO-about S3 A per
capita. As not more than one-fifth of the
weed, the average expenditure of each user
is about $17 per year, an amount that put at
compound interest for fifty years at per
cent. would buy house and lot.
Of course this amount Is nothing like so
large as that spent for liquor-only little
over one-third, in fact, for the nations an
nual liquor bill is about 500 000, ,000-but
still sufficiently formidable sum for an ar
ticle that is, to say the least not an absolute
necessity of life. More money Is spent for
tobacco than for sugar; almost twice as
much as for those other luxuries, tea and
coffee, and two and a-half times as much as
is spent upon schools.
For cigarettes alone the sum of 48, 500 900
is spentSand wasted; for, of all the ways Of
using tobacco, cigarette smoking Is the most
injurious, the most insidious, the most dis
gusting and offensive. Twenty million dol.
lars are spent upon smoking tobacco and
CSC, 900 900 upon chewing tObacco-sO the
chewers have more to answer for than the
pipe-smokers. OF course thelargest item in
up in the shape of tobacco than is consumed
BY all the accidental fires in the United
= States, and tobacco costs almost as much a.
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LADIES fAhLOh-hOUbEs
lobbyist in order to benefit themselves or
friends, and generally only use the le-
gitimate methods to accomplish their
end. There are others, however, who for
money consideration would bore the
life out of congressman or senator
until he either consents to vote for it or
gives a decisive answer in the negative.
These women are pretty well known,
and, as shown, of late years but few
have been able to do very much at the
Capitol, yet they have such quiet little
way of entertaining and pleasing men,
bers of Congress that the latter are al.
ways willing to accommodate them with
out knowing perhaps their true intent.
During the session of Congress all
ladies who call at the Capitol are obliged
to send their cards in by pages from
what is known as the ladies' reception
room. In the House this is on the west
side, and opens on the House porticO
facing the grand piazza. 1t is hand
some room; furnished with easy lounges,
soft carpet and luxurious chairs. The
pages carry the cards into the members
the ladies wish to see, and they generally,
especially new members, answer the call
with avidity. Any time of day, during
the sessions of Congress, one can see
little knots of ladies surrounding con-
gressmen in this room. Some are deep
in conversation, others arguing and using
their most persuasive power to influence
or interest the member.
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; SENATE MARBLE ROOM.
Capitol until Congress adjourned. The
House never reached it. The poor woman
was completely worn out, her good looks
were nearly gone, but she bore up bravely,
and said she would be back when the
Fiftieth Congress began. She would be-
gin with the House this time, for then
the hardest work would be over.
There is another woman who could be
called lobbyist, and that is Charlotte
Smith. She deserves great deal of
credit for her work, but 1t is almost en-
tirely disinterested in behalf of her sex.
She represents the Working Woman's
League, and Is known to every senator
and member in Congress. She is de-
termined little woman, always carrying a
big bundle Of papers with her, flying
corridor, fighting always in behalf of
some poor woman. She seems to take
special pride in the charwomen, wash
women, and other female laborers in the
House and the departments. She has sue
ceeded in having their wages raised, and
given certain number of days vacation
in each year, thus placing Lhem on an
equality with the men emf loyed in the
departments. Mrs. Smith Is persistent,
and If she once catches hold Of bill or
measure she Is sure to push it either into
death or life. Members are afraid of her
because she Is determined and will fight
the battle to the bitter end.
These are only few of the cases, but
enough to give an example of how the
female lobbyists work, and who they are.
JOHN s. SHRIvER.
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the east door-so did the Eve women.
Just as he approached II, out walked the
member. The five women pounced upon
him like hawks, and carried him Of to a
corner and talked him nearly blind for
two hours; his friend did not have even
. chance to say how do to him, and left
In disgust.
One stout member from Ohio, who had
the reputation of having more female
visitors than any other in Congress, had
q pleasant little way of inviting his lady
friends to take lunch with him in the
House restaurant. About lunch time he
always looked at the gallery to see If any
of his friends were there. If he noticed
one he would nod and point toward the
door, get up and 60 out. This signal al
ways brought the lady down to meet
him, and the two would have a pleasant
little tete-a-tete lunch. One day-the
member is near-sighted and generally
wears glasses-Mr. : happened to for
get to put his glasses on. He looked up
in the gallery and thought he saw one of
his lady friends. He nodded and pointed
toward the door. 1t so happened on that
day there were four lady acquaintances
Of his in the gallery. They were not
together, but happened to be on the side
to which he looked. They saw his sig
nal, saw him get up, and simultaneously
the four drew their cloaks about them,
gave their hats a little twist, poked q
hair-pin in their back hair, put on their
gloves, and walked out. Not one of them
knew the other. They all walked down
the wide marble stairway, and at the foot
He had found his glasses and was wait
iup ho ovnactod tho arrival pf ono
He saw all four of them descending, and
made motion to escape. They were too
quick for him, however, and he was
obliged to surrender, and introduced each
to the other as his cousin, all from differ
ent States. . He had quite little lunch
party that day, but the joke got out on
him and for some time he had great
deal of explaining to do.
During the last session there was a
very pretty widow who floated around
the corridors of the Capitol to great
extent. Her husband had a claim against
the government and had died when it was
yet pending. She had taken it up, and
was determined to see 1t through. She
earned a livelihood by canvassing for
General Logan's book. In this way she
made great many friends among the
senators, as well as members. Each day
she would call at the Marble Room-for
she had free entree-and would send for a
senator. This Solon from the West was
her particular favorite. He seemed to
take great interest in her claim, and had
it reported to the Senate and passed
Then she transferred her efforts to the
House, but there she had a larger number
to contend with, yet she nobly fought
her battle, had the bill reported favorably
hs ast DAVIS Of tine ans sesson when he
rush came, the poor woman did every
thing in her power to interest members
in her bill. Each day she spent at the
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Cn the Senate side the ladies' recep-
tion-room is large apartment, hand
somely frescoed, with sofas and lounges,
but no carpet. 1t is not exclusively for
ladies, and oftentimes males, as well as
females, are congregated there. When
q senator wishes to see lady especially
he tells the page to take her into the
Marble Room, which is the private con-
sultation room used by the senators.
This room is very handsomely fur
nished with large Smyrna rugs, easy
chairs and deep-seated lounges. Here
the senators listen to the pleadi' 90 Hf the
fair sex, as we'll as the remarks heir
male constituents.
When Congress is drawing to close
a number of women who have claims, or
want pensions, or are interested in a
bill, and have grown desperate at the
delay, refuse to stay in the ladies' re-
ception-room, and 60 to the doors of the
House and ask the doorkeepers them
selves to take in their cards. Often they
resort to little tricks to secure members
by sending in fictitious names, or wait
ing until they hear some male request tc
see q member. Oftentimes q member
will send out word to these importunate
women that he is busy and cannot come
out, or will instruct the doorkeepcr to
return the cards and say he is not T.
The females, however, wait around, and
often hear the name Of the same mcm-
Der called out by gentleman friend.
One member was nicely caught last
February. No less than i've females
ell with claims-were trying to catch him
(he is member of the claims commit
tee). He refused day after day for week
to see them. He had slyly gotten into
the House and slyly out again without
being caught; but ON this day all FIVE
women were waiting at the west door.
A very intimate friend Of the member
came along, sent his card In, and when
the docrkeeper returned, forgetting him
self, said In loud enough tones FOR the
women TO hear: "Ar. -. says meet him
at the east door; there are . lot OF women
out here he % trying to escape, OF he
wQa6 eome out" Tke nan depaIted for
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THE wHITEBOY ACT.
An Old Statute Revived for the Coercion Of
the People Of Ireland.

An Old Statute Revived for the Coercion Of
the People Of Ireland.
In publishing list of offenses punishable
under the whiteboy act, the British govern
ment is going back more than century into
history. The Whiteboys, an association OF
Irish peasantry formed somewhere about
176O, took their name, as is generally under
stood, from the white shirts they wore in
their expeditions by night. Their efforts
were at first largely directed, in the county
of Tpperary, to throwing down the fences
with which some proprietors, under acquired
rights, turned into private Enclosures lands
that had up to that time been used in com.
mon. But their objects soon included general
combinations against the exactions Of tithes,
oppressive rents, and SO on, and finally
various acts of outrage. The general griev.
ances arising out of the tenure Of land being
then of the same class as those now preya'
lent, we see an official recapitulatiOn of the
offenses and penalties of that day. The first
reflection which suggests itself, however, is
that after the lapse of generations and the
efforts of many Lawmakers the same old
troubles arise and repressive acts are again
called into play, while the same resort to
secret combinations exists among the people
-NeW York zymes.
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HOMEMADE CANNON.

No Need for the Government to Look
Abroad for Heavy Guns.
The experiments recently conducted at
Sandy Hook with an eight-inch rifle cannon
constructed at the West Point foundry will go
far to upset the theories of those who imagine
that we must 60 abroad for ordnance. This
cannon was made of English and domestic
steel, and stood the tests to which it was sub
mitted without showing any defect what
ever. With shot weighing $50 pounds, and
q charge of American brown powder, the
initial velocity of the projectile was 1915 feet,
and the energy developed at the distance of
1000 yards was equivalent to 1000 foot-tons.
The result of the trials with this cannon
has been carefully collated with the records
of German, English and French cannon of
the same calibre, and establishes the fact that
this gun is superior to any of the same class
of guns Of foreign manufacture. There
never should have been any serious doubt
about the ability Of the United States to
manufacture firearms, great or small, equal
in accuracy and execution to those made
anywhere. It would be very singular If the
universal Yankee nation, world renowned
for its inventive genius and famous for man
ufactures of all kinds, should not be able,
under q proper stimulus, to make anything,
no matter what, equal If not superior tosim-
liar manufactures elsewhere.
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THE REPosE OF A HEALTHY GIRL.


She Hay De sTOsnboy' or fright" but
She Sleeps and IL Happy.
Miss Tomboy has NO affinity for we'll
girls. She cannot sit still long
enough 70 be lady-like. She dances at
night and plays lawn tennis by day, and
never seems to feel the need Of rest out.
side her healthy and unbroken sleep Of
nine good hours by the clock. She does
well all things needing vigor, boldness,
courage and agility. She climbs rocks
like Q goat, swims like fish, rides like
an Amazon, Independent Of q skirt, and
Indifferent of stirrups. She shoots at q
mark with wonderful accuracy Of aim,
and can climb up q smooth tree like the
boys. She angles and takes wasps' nests
with the boys, and knuckles down at
marbles, as well as stands to the wicket
instead of Jane. She likes nothing so
rags and rents, according to her old
approves of dress when she is ION view,"
az she calls It, and likes pretty things
with the best.
It is to be confessed, however, with
some degree of shame, that she does not
take care Of her pretty things when she
has them. A ball dress seldom lasts more
than q couple of nights, and her best
walking dress becomes worst in less
time than Miss Prim's over the w takes
to look as If 1t had ever been wcrnat all
Her wardrobe suffers, but her cheeks
gain what her silks and stuffs and mus
Inns lose, and the freshness of her face
makes amends for the destruction of her
gowns. When at last the days glad joy,
prolonged into the nights brisk pleas
ure, has ended, and the world goes into
torpor and silence, as she lays her curly
head on her pillow, Miss Tomboy smiles
with satisfaction.
After all, bed is pleasant place, she
thinks-very pleasant when one has been
on ones feet for fifteen hours, with
only the break of sitting down at meals.
And with the smile still about her rosy
mouth, and almost before she has quite
settled her head on the pillow, she is fast
asleep. There she lies, like q great
human flower or like big child-which
is the same-warm, flushed, happy in her
faint consciousness of delicious rest, like
the beasts and birds and the insects,
which, in that marvellous garden where
the sensitive plant was the favorite
child, were
IN an ocean Of dreams without sound,
Whose waves ever mark, though they never
impress
The light sand which paves consciousness.
-PhX0dekDh1N Pfees.
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Remarkable balloon Experiments.

Successful experiments have been made at
Metz with navigable balloon, propelled by
an electric motor. The Augsburg AHgsmeins
Zsitung says the balloon is the invention of
o German engineer named Welker, who for
some time was employed in America, where
government, the paper says, has bought the
Invention, paying for It 1000, 900 marks
down and another1 ,000, 900 which is to be paid
in instsllments. Thespeed Of the balloon en-
ceeds that of railway train, and It may be
stopped and directed st will, moving against
the report, 1t is certain that the residents Of
Metz are now nightly startled by an electric
illumination hovering at q great height over
their houses.
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THE YACHT THISTLE.
Her Owner Confident She Can Beat the
Best Yankee Craft.

Her Owner CONFIDENT She Can Beat the
Best Yankee Craft.
Yachtsmen are not little amused at the
supreme confidence manifested by Mr.. James
Bell, owner of the Scotch cutter Thistle,
whom the cable reports as asserting that his
vessel was not built to win the American cup
alone, but to defeat the best yacht the Ameri-
cans can produce. The winning of the cup
he considers mere incidental matter. Con-
cerning the Irex, the English champion, he
intimates that II he did not believe the This
tie superior to her he would sell the latter for
old junk; and, q for the Genesis and Gala
tea, he II equally certain he can beat them
with ease. The Thistle, he also says, will
sail her maiden race In the new Thames
she VIII come over here With racing mast,
booms and topmast lashed to the deck.
Before leaving, Il ID understood she viii pub
licly challenge the Irex for the Cape May and
Brsnton Reef cups, which were won BY the
Genegta.
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Pretty soon the clerk who has 70 k3N61l
cused Of an afternoon, because he y too r. e
Ct .. 4 .s Z. Sssl At woEk. Sili % e %io@A c.
hard side Of an unplaned boayd go -
ing Ike . mAdmsn when hi1 fkV1
team = estting Whipped.- - e
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Fsrd. Ward kicking . Press.

Ferdinand Ward has been taken out Of
the laundry ct Sing Sing prison and sent
back TO kicking the printing press in the State
printing Office, where the necessary printing
p done for the prison. He said ne liked
being Q printer "better than q washer
woman" The three "boodle aldermen"
yaehne. O'Neill and McQuade are getting
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HE'S A GoNER.

For nearly every shame we know
Some cure the weakest may redeem;
Except the man who falls below
The level of his self-esteem.
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IT ALL DEPENDS.

Why is it we may praise the heart
And for our love demand respect,
Yet dare not land our subtlest art
Or make parade Of intellect?
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Looking EoR A KNoT-HOLE,

LOOKING FOR KNoT-HOLE.
We all would modify the shame
In which our guilty minds rejoice;
BY urging, fate is half to blame
Since we were never born from choice.
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WAIT TILL HE GROWS OLDER.

"Alasi' cries the youngster as he mops hie
slate, Figures are perplexing." But then,
what does he know of decollete revelationsf 3
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A PARADOX.

The maid forgives rapacity
That steals from lips their dewy plunder;
And smiles at loves audacity-
'Tis only careful men who blunder.
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The festive card player in the railway car
turns down his thumb now when he is dis
satisfied with his hand. There is no longer
any significance in II pass.'
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A,venersbIe Mule.

Of Springfield. No. bought It . government
sale mule that had been condemned on 40
count Of its age. He worked 1t right along
for hiteen yeers. and then put It ON the 70
tired VI, and for eight yeals the old mule
has had good time. Ehas just died at the
- q forty.
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DON'T GO FAR ENOUGH.

Sam Jones is supporting four young mer
at college in Georgia. He should add five
more; then he would have complete nine.
At present he can only supply pitcher,
catcher, short-stop and first base.
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st. Bernard said "Woman is the organ OF
the devil" At any rate man delights in play
ing upon the stops of her sentiment until he
stops playing and begins in earnest.
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wAYsIDE WISDOM.

DIGNITIEs CHANGE MORALS.
A legal light
His virtue slight:
Judge: dignified veneer:
The bench supreme:
Correct, extreme,
Pedantic and austere.
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THE TRUE INWARDNEss OF IT.
The man of resolution strong
Declares II wilp' and then succeeds;
Still purpose often plods along,
Where secret inclination leads.
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you cAwN'T DO IT, YE KNOW.
To try to harness sentiment
With limit and restriction,
Isike attempting TO invent n
A comfort from affliction.
CHAD. M0CoY.
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AND EVEN THEN YOU HAVE TO BR CAREFUL.
A cynical French proverb reads: Beware
Of man; trust your dog to the end" Which
end? the tail-end of course. The other one
is dangerous.